However, if we analyze the sentence Turner received using these criteria the sentence does not necessarily appear outrageously lenient.
The candidates also are in a complicated position where the United States is concerned, not wanting to appear overly lenient toward drug traffickers but also not wanting to appear to have capitulated to U.S. criticism of Colombia's drug policies.
But we now know two umpires have been banned – one for life for contacting another official in an attempt to manipulate matches and another for 12 months (which appears extremely lenient) for passing on insider information and regularly placing bets.
But it was one of the less heroic, conveniently forgotten, aspects of Thatcherism that while the so-called Iron Lady delighted in dragging those toilers she associated with Labour into the modern age, she appeared more lenient towards those she associated with the Conservatives.
South Africa, meanwhile, appears more lenient, though perhaps not so commercially savvy as Rwanda: it allows anyone over 18 to fly a drone for fun, but using one for business purposes requires onerous paperwork.
But the same provision appears too lenient to Larry Gross, coordinator of the Coalition for Economic Survival, a tenant activist group that forged a strong power base last November when candidates it supported won four of West Hollywood's five council seats.
More severe participants appear higher, while more lenient participants lower.
While this alleged exchange of cash for more lenient treatment may appear highly dubious, it's standard operating procedure for many law enforcement agencies, said Dan Alban, an attorney at Institute for Justice, a libertarian public interest law firm that advocates for the end of civil forfeiture.
He must now return to Tampa to appear before Foster, who has been lenient in the past but has warned that Strawberry, who has violated probation five times, is running out of chances.
Judge Jackson tends to be relatively lenient on convicted criminals who appear before her.
